Mariah Carey closes 2016 with disastrous NYE performance

[Teh One Who Knocks]

By Stephanie Pagones, Nick Fugallo and Kathianne Boniello - The New York Post

And now, for the grand finale, 2016 is taking out Mariah Carey live on stage pic.twitter.com/kfBJxXjepB

— The Ostrich (@ALostrich) January 1, 2017

Mariah Carey really dropped the ball in Times Square on New Year’s Eve — with lip syncing that was decidedly out-of-sync.

Carey had been assigned to perform two of her hit songs, “Emotions” and “We Belong Together.”

But the singer appeared unable to hear her own song track, ultimately giving up and standing on the stage with closed mouth and a hand on her hip.

Meanwhile, her vocal track went on without her.

“Well, Happy New Year,” she huffed. “We can’t hear, but I’ll just go through the motions,” she said, later adding, “I’m trying to be a good sport here.”

“It was kinda like the ‘Saturday Night Live’ performance,’’ said Leslie Keeley of Manhattan, referring to Ashlee Simpson’s infamous out-of-sync turn on “SNL” in 2004. “The end of 2016 was not good for Mariah.’’

Carey had been heavily hyped by ABC as the star attraction of “Dick Clark’s Rockin’ Eve 2017.

And indeed, she made quite a splash — just not in the way the network had intended.

Twitter users went wild.

ISIS just took responsibility for Mariah Carey's performance. #MariahCarey #nye2016

— Bruce Rosenberg (@nesorb) January 1, 2017

The amount of 💩hitting the fan right now behind the scenes of that #MariahCarey lip sync debacle... pic.twitter.com/2vvTA4MjdB

— Bonnie Bernstein (@BonnieBernstein) January 1, 2017

Mariah Carey's backup dancers deserve Oscars for their performance of having to act like nothing was wrong #MariahCarey

— Jessica Winters (@thisisjessicaw) January 1, 2017

After that performance, #MariahCarey should be required to perform at the Trump Inaugural.

— Duff Tyler (@DuffTyler) January 1, 2017

[Teh One Who Knocks]

By Emily Smith and Danika Fears - Page 6




The songbird should have just winged it.

That’s what angry Dick Clark Productions staffers griped about Mariah Carey moments after the pop diva’s disastrous New Year’s Eve performance.

“So what if her ear piece doesn’t work? Can’t she just wing it?” people from the production company said in frustration, according to sources.

The superstar’s earpiece malfunction left her struggling to sing along to a prerecorded track of her tunes, until she ultimately gave up and just stood on stage.

Carey’s camp has said the TV show’s producers sabotaged her performance for ratings by ignoring her repeated complaints about her equipment.

“To make matters worse, they won’t apologize and continue to throw Mariah under the bus,’’ a Carey source told The Post on Monday.

Dick Clark Productions fired back by calling the allegations “defamatory, outrageous and, frankly, absurd.”

“In very rare instances, there are, of course, technical errors that can occur with live television.

However, an initial investigation has indicated that DCP had no involvement in the challenges associated with Ms. Carey’s New Year’s Eve performance,” the company said in a statement.

DCP claimed that Carey declined to perform a sound check before the show. Rehearsal-audience member Mike Keenan told The Post that Carey “did not sing at all” during the run-through.

But the source close to Carey said, “She provided the sound-check vocals from the side of the stage while someone else stood in to do her dance moves. The sound in her ear was choppy, but the production team assured her it would be fixed.

“She did them a favor by appearing on the Dick Clark New Year’s Eve special,’’ the source added. “She was the biggest star there, and she did it for free because they begged her.”

Carey’s manager, Stella Bulochnikov, told Entertainment Weekly, “She should have walked off and thrown the mic at somebody’s head — that would have been a great moment.”

Carey made no mention of the debacle on her Instagram page Monday, instead writing about her Colorado vacation: “Fun in the snow. Aspen is a winter wonderland.”

Fun in the snow. Aspen is a winter wonderland. ❄️⛄️❤️

A photo posted by Mariah Carey (@mariahcarey) on Jan 2, 2017 at 8:10am PST

[Goofy]

Fuckin' amateur

[Teh One Who Knocks]

Hmmm...here's and idea...seeing how you're supposed to be, I dunno, a singer, why don't you actually get up there and sing instead of lip syncing to a pre-recorded track?

[DemonGeminiX]

None of it would have mattered if she was topless.

[Muddy]

I want to see her thick lipped puffy pussy.

[PorkChopSandwiches]

Turns out, I dont really give a shit